2021
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c06509
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Simple Host–Guest Assembly for High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Microvasculature

Abstract: Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is an important imaging technique that can be used to identify and characterize various types of vascular diseases. However, currently used molecular contrast agents are unsuitable for MRA due to the short intravascular retention time, the whole-body distribution, and the relatively low contrast effect. In this study, we developed a vascular analysis contrast agent (i.e., VasCA) for MRA, which is a simple and biocompatible 1:1 host–guest assembly of PEGylated β-cyclodextrin… Show more

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“…It has been postulated that slower average motion of water in cells to long- [ 66 ] and short-range interactions between water molecules and macromolecular surfaces. MR has been used by a number of investigators to examine the behavior of water molecules in whole organisms [ 67 ], normal and cancerous tissues of many kinds [ 68 ], in cultured cells [ 69 ] during the cell cycle [ 70 ], and in solutions of macromolecules [ 71 ]. In all cases, the relaxation times were reduced by 3 to 100 times their value in pure liquid water.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…It has been postulated that slower average motion of water in cells to long- [ 66 ] and short-range interactions between water molecules and macromolecular surfaces. MR has been used by a number of investigators to examine the behavior of water molecules in whole organisms [ 67 ], normal and cancerous tissues of many kinds [ 68 ], in cultured cells [ 69 ] during the cell cycle [ 70 ], and in solutions of macromolecules [ 71 ]. In all cases, the relaxation times were reduced by 3 to 100 times their value in pure liquid water.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hypoxia is a common feature of most solid tumors, , and it can cause an increase in reductive stress, which leads to high levels of reductase expression in tumor sites, such as quinone reductase (QR), nitro-reductase (NTR), and azo reductase (AzoR) . Among them, AzoR is an important family of reductases that can gradually reduce the azo bond to anilines and has been successfully used in the design of many small-molecule probes. As an ideal substrate for AzoR, azobenzene (Azo), and cyclodextrin could form stable host–guest complexes which have been extensively employed for in vivo imaging and drug delivery study. Herein, we presented a kind of AzoR-activated MRET imaging probe with a “switch-on” property for specific and sensitive tumor imaging in vivo , especially for imaging tumors with smaller sizes. More specifically, a paramagnetic compound of Gd-labeled DNA 1 (DNA 1 -Gd) and superparamagnetic nanoparticles of cyclodextrin-coated magnetic nanoparticles (MNP-CD) were employed as enhancer and quencher, respectively, and the azo-modified aptamer (AS1411) DNA 2 served as a linker between the enhancer and quencher to construct the MRET probe MNP@DNA (1–2) -Gd based on host–guest interaction between Azo and cyclodextrin. As shown in Figure , in normal tissues the nanoscale distance between DNA 1 -Gd and MNP-CD was sufficiently close, allowing the probe to remain in a constant “OFF state”.…”
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